Tori Spelling said watching Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette with her kids took her straight back to the 1990s. The FX series, which premiered on Feb. 12, has already become part of her family’s viewing rotation, and her reaction points to a show that is landing as both nostalgia and fashion reference.
“I definitely love the fashion,” Spelling said on Friday, May 1. She added that “it took me to some really good memories through the ’90s,” a response that puts the series in a different lane from a standard biographical drama: it is also working as a memory trigger for viewers who lived through the decade.
Spelling and her teens
Spelling watched the series alongside her children and said it was “really cool to be able to tell them stories about going through that time era and making it current now.” She shares five kids with ex Dean McDermott: Liam, 19, Stella, 17, Hattie, 14, Finn, 13, and Beau, 9. For a parent watching with teens, the show becomes more than a period piece; it turns into a built-in conversation about style, fame, and what the early ’90s looked like in real time.
She also said, “My kids are really into fashion, every single one of them in a different way,” which explains why the wardrobe drew her in so quickly. Spelling’s own line on the subject was blunt: “Fashion is about how it makes you feel. I think it’s about finding your unique perspective. It can be anything.”
FX’s Carolyn Bessette lane
The series stars Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., following their romance in the years leading up to their deaths in a 1999 plane crash. It wrapped in March and is now streaming on Hulu, which gives the project a longer shelf life than its Feb. 12 FX premiere alone would suggest.
That setup also explains why Spelling singled out the fashion. Carolyn Bessette Kennedy remains the series’ clearest style point of entry, and the show’s visual language is doing some of the work that a plot summary cannot. Spelling said, “Meeting Sarah... was amazing. She’s so iconic,” but the bigger takeaway is simpler: the wardrobe and period detail are doing enough to pull in viewers across generations.
Why this lands now
Spelling is 52, and her response shows how a series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette can work on two tracks at once: as a retelling of a 1990s relationship and as a family conversation about how that decade looked, dressed, and felt. For anyone deciding whether to press play, her comments point to the practical reason to watch: not just the names in the title, but the way the show turns style history into something a parent can discuss with teenagers in the same room.
